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Licenses : Open Source and CopyLeft Licenses

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Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 CREATIVE COMMONS CORPORATION IS NOT A LAW FIRM AND DOES NOT PROVIDE LEGAL SERVICES. DISTRIBUTION OF THIS LICENSE DOES NOT CREATE AN ATTORNEY-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP. CREATIVE COMMONS PROVIDES THIS INFORMATION ON AN "AS-IS" BASIS. CREATIVE COMMONS MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING THE INFORMATION PROVIDED, AND DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ITS USE. License THE WORK (AS DEFINED BELOW) IS PROVIDED UNDER THE TERMS OF THIS CREATIVE COMMONS PUBLIC LICENSE ("CCPL" OR "LICENSE"). THE WORK IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. ANY USE OF THE WORK OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED. BY EXERCISING ANY RIGHTS TO THE WORK ...

This source code has been made available to you by IBM on an AS-IS basis. Anyone receiving this source is licensed under IBM copyrights to use it in any way he or she deems fit, including copying it, modifying it, compiling it, and redistributing it either with or without modifications. No license under IBM patents or patent applications is to be implied by the copyright license. Any user of this software should understand that IBM cannot provide technical support for this software and will not be responsible for any consequences resulting from the use of this software. Any person who transfers this source code or any derivative work must include the IBM copyright notice, this paragraph, and the preceding two paragraphs in the tran...

Sybase Open Watcom Public License version 1.0 USE OF THE SYBASE OPEN WATCOM SOFTWARE DESCRIBED BELOW ("SOFTWARE") IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THE SYBASE OPEN WATCOM PUBLIC LICENSE SET FORTH BELOW (“LICENSE”). YOU MAY NOT USE THE SOFTWARE IN ANY MANNER UNLESS YOU ACCEPT THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE. YOU INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE BY IN ANY MANNER USING (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY REPRODUCING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING) THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LICENSE, DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE IN ANY MANNER. 1. General; Definitions. This License applies only to the following software programs: the open source versions of Sybase’s Watcom C/C++ and Fortran...

POV-Ray Licence Agreement GENERAL LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PERSONAL USE Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) Version 3.6 License and Terms & Conditions of Use version of 1 February 2005 (also known as POVLEGAL.DOC) Please read through the terms and conditions of this license carefully. This license is a binding legal agreement between you, the 'User' (an individual or single entity) and Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd. ACN 105 891 870 (herein also referred to as the "Company"), a company incorporated in the state of Victoria, Australia, for the product known as the "Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer", also referred to herein as 'POV-Ray'. YOUR ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THE DISCLAIMER OF WARR...

Before we get to the text of the license, lets just review what the license says in simple terms: It allows you to: * freely download and use ImageMagick software, in whole or in part, for personal, company internal, or commercial purposes; * use ImageMagick software in packages or distributions that you create; * link against a library under a different license; * link code under a different license against a library under this license; * merge code into a work under a different license; * extend patent grants to any code using code under this license; * and extend patent protection. It forbids you to: * redistribute any piece of ImageMagick-originated software...

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